Saturday, February 25, 2017

Happy Birthday Zac!!

Zac turned 34 this year and we had such a fun day celebrating!  We started with presents in the morning, which he gave a superb reaction to. The kids love doing heavy heavy hangover, and love to smash the present down on dad's head.  Everyone laughs and laughs and thinks it's so funny.  

Per Zac's request, we worked in the basement that morning for a bit and then went and partied in Idaho Falls.  We went our first ever family bowling trip and Eloise creamed us all!  It was a ton of fun.  Then we went to the paramount and watched Moana, which was really good.  Zac sure knows how to party!  That night Zac's parents took us out to dinner at Jaker's and we ate amazing food and had great company.  It was a very fun filled and action packed day for us all.


Update on Zac: So Zac has been trying some new jobs lately and keeps growing and growing.  I'm beginning to see that there is really nothing that he can't do once he puts his mind to it.  Last September he left Manual Solutions to become a therapy director at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls.  He learned so much there and really enjoyed spending more time working as a manager and less time treating patients.  Things were going great there, but another opportunity presented itself and Zac jumped in with both feet.  He is now the Therapy Director at Nuclear Care Partners (NCP) which is a similar job, but this one provides him with bigger growth opportunities in the future.  They are wanting to expand and make an outpatient clinic and Zac will be heading that up in the coming years.  We are still getting used to the new schedule and demands, but overall, he is really happy with the change.  We are so lucky to have him, he supports our family in amazing ways; physically, spiritually and emotionally.  He deserves the happiest of birthdays!

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Lewis Cousin Fun

We went to Salt Lake for Austin (left) and Scott's (Right) baptism.  They were so excited and we loved being there to celebrate with them!  Teagan is just loving his cousins and they are like three peas in a pod!

Here are all eight of them, this was the best picture we got.  haha  It is so fun to have all these cousins close in age!

They all love to play together and try crazy ideas and make huge messes and they laugh so hard and never fall asleep and wake each other up and the crack of dawn...all the things cousins are supposed to do...I guess 



One thing that makes these cousins especially close is the unique way our families are set up.  The Lewis family has 1 girl and then 4 boys while we have the opposite, 1 boy and then 3 girls.  When we get together Teagan LOVES to have "brothers" and plays constantly with all the boys, and I think the Lewis boys like having a male leader that has the wild boyish ideas and similar interests.  Kate loves having Eloise and Adeline around and they all play girly games and she dresses them up and takes their pictures and my girls loving having the sweet, soft spoken leader for a change.

I came downstairs when they were watching a movie early Saturday morning and my heart swelled to see them bonding.  The girls had snuggled right up to Kate and all three seemed to be in heaven.  Then across the room the boys were spread out as far as possible.  I laughed and laughed when I saw them.  (I think Ty and Logan were still sleeping).


While the kids run around together and make memories, the adults have a blast playing games, talking, watching sports, eating delicious food and laughing so hard we cry.  I could spend every weekend with the Lewis'!